One of the laws of nature is that non-violence is result-oriented, while violence is destruction-oriented. Therefore, if the individual confines his activities to the field of gentleness and non-violence, his work will yield results, whereas one who opts for the way of violence and intolerance regresses instead of advancing.

The truth is that whenever anyone opts for the way of intolerance and violence, his energies are unnecessarily divided between two fronts-internal construction and doing battle with the external foe, whereas one who opts for gentleness and non-violence can devote all his available energy and resources to the one front of internal consolidation alone, and as a natural result, he can achieve a far greater success.

This is the law of nature which is operative in our world. Here if one is to achieve any estimable goal, it will only be by adhering to this system of nature which is entirely based on the principle of peace and non-violence. Therefore, here one can be successful by adhering to, and not by deviating from this law. Non-violent activism can in fact, be equated with positive status quoism.

It is a fact that all worthy feats in this world have been performed by peaceful endeavour. No great or noble task has ever been carried out by the power of violence. This applies equally to scientific discoveries and technological progress. Neither educational institutions nor research institutes have ever been established by violent means.

Iron's conversion into machines and major city planning, have all been done by the power of peace, not of violence. Right from ensuring social welfare to the setting up of the relevant infrastructure-all progressive measures have been carried into effect by peaceful strategies.

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Violence per se is destructive and no constructive result can ever come from a destructive act. This is the law of nature and as such is immutable. Another name for non-violence is positive status quoism. It is, to put it another way, a form of foresight in accordance with the natural law of "wait and see". There are times when each individual and community finds itself in the kind of situations in which they begin to feel that they are faced with certain obstacles, which prevent their making any headway. In such cases, most people come-consciously or unconsciously-to regard such difficult circumstances as a permanent condition. And as such they begin to wrestle with the circumstances in order to remove the hurdles. Fighting of this kind always proves futile. It only results in making things go from bad to worse. It should be remembered that difficult circumstances are never here to stay. They are always of an ephemeral nature. This being so, the easy solution to this problem is to ignore it, rather than unnecessarily wage war on the circumstances. This policy will preserve man's mental peace, and whatever lies in store for him will in time become available to him.

Whenever man is confronted with any problem, he wants it to be solved without delay. This is where he actually goes wrong. If he could just shelve his problems at least for a short time, he would find that solutions would present themselves which had nothing to do with combating circumstances head on, or with coming into confrontation with opponents.

None of his problems would remain such for an indefinite period of time. In most cases violence takes place only because this principle, not being generally understood, is not applied in daily living. A person following the principle of non-violence adopts the 'wait and see' policy and keeping his actions in the peaceful sphere continues to strive towards his goals. The result is miraculous. Not only is he able to maintain peace but he is able to achieve the goals that he set for himself in the first place. This is a result oriented action to the last extent.